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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:40:23 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
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> On plan9 OS upgrades use replica which takes care not to stomp over your
> changes, and when I move jobs I just take some DVDs of my venti with me.

I guess there would be less resistance if contrib (by a more
appopriate name, I think fgb concurs here) was part of the base
distribution.

I haven't had occasion to use contrib myself and the only qualm I have
is that trying to access an ISO image remotely is going to be painful
(please tell me I'm wrong) at the end of a 64kbps Internet link.

++L